The Bamberg herald. (Bamberg, S.C.) 1891-1972, December 11, 1919, SECOND SECTION PAGES 9 TO 16, Page 13, Image 13
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The happiest dinner of all the year'
Is that in which all the members of a
family join on Christmas day. Preparations
for this joyous feast are go^
ing on two or three weeks before
Christmas day, or even for a longer
time. There is a lot of fun in making
them, especially when all the
family is interested and every member
of it takes some part in the work.
In addition to the usual Christmas
greens?the pine and holly?so dearly
loved and always used as a background
for other things, some new and
unexpected decorations add to the interest
of Christmas celebrations. For
the dinner table, the sideboard, the
Christmas tree, serving tables and
i mantels some things are to be newly
made each year, adding the spice of
variety to the charm of old-time favorites.
Among these are centerpieces
for the Christmas table. To replace
tile miniature Christmas tree or the
decorative Christmas cake ? which
ha~? done long and valiant service as
centerpieces, there are a number of
new things that are easy to make and
cost next to nothing, which have been
brought out lately. Among them
"Christmas pies" are featured. They
are boxes of some sort that simulate
a house, a chimney, a figure of Santa
Clans, a sleigh or any receptacle that
will hold small packages, and they are
filled with little gifts, usually things
that provoke a laugh, that are to be
distributed before or after dinner to
the people seated at the table.
A centerpiece made of cardboard,
cotton, powdered mica and crepe paper
is shown in the picture above. A
, very heavy cardboard is used for the
foundation and this is about thirty
Inches square. A box twelve inches
squar2 will serve for the house, and
It is either covered with red paper or
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Id order that the high cost of living
may not fall ~"ve a blight upon the
Christmas tree, we must begin to consider
its decoration right now. Quite
a number of things are more expensive
than they used to be, and candy
is among them, but there are plenty
Of ornaments that cost next to nothing,
and homemade candies?which
are better than others?will partially
s, replace the confectioners' wares.
Some of the inexpensive ornaments
that will adorn this year's Christmas
trees appear in two groups above. At
the left are a few of the new and inexpensive
celluloid toys that have
Deen produced in great variety unu
abundance and can be bought for ten
or fifteen cents each. They include
very pretty little jointed dolls, all
kinds of domestic and wild animals,
ducks, fishes and swans and very vividly
colored horns. They are very light
, and will float, so that the waterfowl,
the tiny battleships and fishes can be
floated in a basin of water. In the
group at the left,there are three celluloid
animals, besides a doll and a horn.
They are all nicely colored and the
doll is large enough to dress easily.
The horn is a very vivid red, has a silk
cord and tassel and will delight the
small vounesters to whom noise is mu
sic.
In the group at the right, just a few
home-made ornaments are shown.
They include a butterfly and a robin,
with a plain horn of tin, having red
gauze ribbon wrapped about it and
tied in bows at the ends. Also one of
those long candy snappers, wrapped in
bright red paper. A face is painted on
it, with hair and whiskers indicated
bjr cotton, to look like Santa Claus.
The butterfly is cut from crepe pa
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painted red, with windows and doors
sketched on. In the printed papers
niptnrpa r>f hnnsps micht helD OUt in
making the house. When the box has
been glued or tacked to the foundation
small pine trees may be
made by cutting green crepe paper
into narrow fringe. This is
wound to moderately heavy wire,
using thread or tie wire to fasten
the fringe to the heavy wire. By
trimming the fringe in different lengths
the short and long branches of the
trees are simulated.
The next step is the placing of cotton
to simulate snow op the foundation
board, on the roof of the house,
on the trees and below the painted
windows. It is fastened down with
little dabs of mucilage. The roof of
the house can be lifted off when the
time comes and small packages that
have been placed within distributed to
those about the table. Little figures
added to the scene help to make it attractive.
Santa Claus and his reindeer,
cut from printed paper and |
pasted against thin cardboard, are s?t
in the snowy scene pictured. Finally
powdered mica?"Santa Claus snow"?
is sprinkled over the whole piece to
give it a frosty sparkle, and this finishes
a fine centerpiece for the Christmas
dinner table.
Nearly all these center pieces arc
made of a 'low pasteboard box?either
round or square?containing small
gifts and having a flat lid. This iS
covered with cotton or crepe paper
aDd a Santa Claus, chimney, or tiny
Christmas tree, is mounted on the lid.
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per, which may be bought with many
butterflies in various sizes and colors;
painted on it. It is then pasted against |
a thin piece of cardboard or a heavy!
writing paper that is cut out to con- j
form to it, and mounted on a short
wire. By brushing a very little mucil-.
age on the wings (in lines or spots),!
powdered mica sprinkled over them
will give the glitter that is expected on
the Christmas tree. The birds are
made in the same way.
Mosquito netting, in white and red,
makes fine ornaments in the form of
little mittens, stockings and bags, that
hold mixtures of popcorn and candy.1
These are cut out and sewed with red
yarn along the sides. A drawstring of
yarn, run through the top, closes these
candy bags and serves to hang them
on the tree.
Tinsel, that is bought by the yard 1
for the tree, will rfiake sparkling sil- ;
ver stars. The stars are cut from thin
cardboard and the tinsel sewed to !
them. They will take the place of
glass balls at less cost. Gold and silver
paper make the prettiest horns of
plenty, cut in small triangles that are
pasted together at the longer sides.
The open end can be finished with tin- j
sel and the horn is hung to the tree !
with narrow red ribhon, tinsel or plain
red or green cord. Small balls of pop- j
corn, suspended on threads, help fill in i
wherever decorations look thin and, j
being white, are sure to help set ofC j
all the gay trinkets that make up the
glory of the Christmas tree.
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(Copyright, by A. Neely Hall.)
Suppose that you prepare some
homemade Christmas-tree ornaments
, like those in the illustrations, to go
' with the ornaments which you have,
| fer this year's tree. They will help
| to cover the tree, and, not only that,
j they will make your tree more InterI
eating because they will be different
j from anything you can buy.
The pretty spear top ornament in
i Fig. l is made of & sheet of letter!
paper rolled i^to a cornucopia, with a
| thread spool glued in the open end
I (Figs. 2 and 3), and & small silk-spool
| slipped over the small end (Figs. 3
j and 4); then all is covered with tinfoil,
and a tassel made of pieces of
red, white and blue paper, slashed
Into fringe (Fig. 5), Is fastened in the
apex, unroll can oe oDiainea irom
a florist.
Unless you can hare electric lights,
it is better not to light the tree at all,
than to run the risk of its catching
lire. But unlit candles make pretty
ornaments, so I hare shown a home
made holder in Fig. 6. This la made
bj wrapping a clothespin with tinfoil
so the upper edge of the tinfoil
projects to form a cup for the candle
(Fig. 8). Wrap the end of the candle
with tinfoil to make it fit the cup
(Fig. 7). The clothespin sets down i
over the tip of a branch, as shown in j
Fig. 6, and the weight made of a '
marble or piece of clay, wrapped in
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tinfoil (Fig. 9>, is suspended by thread I
from one leg of the clothespin (Fig. I
6), to balance the holder.
Little Santa Claus dolls like that !
shown in Fig. 10, to straddle the tree
branches, are pretty and easily made.
The bodiefe are clothespins, with trouser
legs of red paper (A, Fig. 11)
slipped over the ends (Fig. 12), & red
paper coat (B and C, Fig. 11), glued
close to the head of the pin (Fig. 13),
cotton whiskers (D, Fig. 11), a red
paper peaked hat (E), and eyes marked
with ink upon the clothespin head, j
The airship in Fig. 14 has a bal
loon with ends made of the halves of
an egg-shell (A, Figs. 15 and 16).
The ends are connected by a cylindrical
piece (B) rolled out of cardboard, to
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i which they are glued; and a strip of
j cardboard (C) is glued along each
side. The car is a small box, and the
propeller (D) is pivoted to its end with I
a pin. Threads suspend the car from j
the balloon, and others suspend the i
balloon from the Christmas tree. Paint !
j the balloon red and the car yellow.
Probably you have prepared colored j
popcorn strings, but I wonder if you
have made strings of cranberries and
glass beads? Fig. 17 suggests a way
to alternate the beads and cranber!
ries so they will present the form of
glass ball strings. To make the cran- |
berries sparkle like glass balls, coat !
some with glue and sprinkle with the
powdered mica sold for imitation
snow, gild others with gold bronze
j ?the kind sold for decorating radia'
tors, or wrap in tinfoil.
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